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Property editor, House & Home

Nathan Brooker writes about UK and international property markets for the FT Weekend.

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2019
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  • Friday, 24 May, 2019
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    Zero-carbon homes: let’s ditch the greenwash

    ‘Sustainability in the UK housing sector has failed to keep up’

  • Friday, 10 May, 2019
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    Who would own a holiday home in the sun?

    A second house abroad will turn out to be a boomer phenomenon — like golf

  • Friday, 22 March, 2019
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    Welcome to The Truman Show, Google-style

    Digital city, shelf of nations and grab a chair

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    The housing ladder is over — just ask the Instagrammers

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  • Thursday, 17 January, 2019
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    Are UK house prices heading for a post-Brexit meltdown?

    The FT looks at previous housing market crashes to see if the circumstances are likely to be repeated now

  • Thursday, 17 January, 2019
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    Whatever happens, Brexit is bad news for young housebuyers

    Deal or no deal — the damage has been done

  • Monday, 31 December, 2018
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    Prime property predictions for 2019: the Americas

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  • Wednesday, 19 December, 2018
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    Why I’m spending Christmas with my bank managers

    ‘Bomad’ loans are both deeply unfair on a societal level and deeply risky on a personal one

  • Thursday, 27 September, 2018
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    We should be nicer to Alexa

    The way we treat AI has been a political issue since proposals to give robots ‘electronic personhood’ status

  • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
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    The Bridget Jones film director says children’s data must be treated differently

  • Tuesday, 31 July, 2018
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    My summer allergy: children in the city

    London is home to more than 1.5m people under the age of 12. During the holidays, it feels like 15m

  • Wednesday, 25 July, 2018
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    In defence of estate agents

    It’s easy to knock the trade but the owner-marketer is worse

  • Thursday, 12 July, 2018
    UK Inequality
    Cause or effect? The link between gentrification and violent crime

    The rising property market in cities such as London fuels disaffection and leads to ‘commuting’ criminals

  • Tuesday, 3 April, 2018
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    How London lost its mojo to Manhattan

    Property developers are rebranding swaths of the capital with corny American names

  • Thursday, 15 March, 2018
    Global property
    How the financial crash made our cities unaffordable

    Since 2008, property markets in the world’s major cities have ‘synchronised’ and left nations and citizens behind

  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2017
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    Some of the most expensive cities are high-risk, but the economics of housing there still stack up — for now

  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2017
    Asian prime property
    Lack of supply drives rise in Kyoto’s property prices

    There is strong demand for high-end residential in Japan’s former imperial capital

  • Thursday, 16 November, 2017
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    New homes alone won’t solve UK house crisis

    The problem isn’t lack of supply, it’s that the current supply is too expensive

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    Prime property
    Global prime property calculator

    How much prime residential property could you buy in the world’s priciest cities?

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